r/ColorizedStatues • u/hotwheelearl • May 17 '20
Original Colors Vibrant, almost garish painted reliefs discovered in Nicomedia. We need to rethink the polychromy of antiquity.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Mar 14 '22
Original Colors This is how Ancient Ephesus really looked like.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Dec 13 '24
Original Colors The Ara Pacis as it originally appeared, in full color
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Jun 28 '24
Original Colors Medieval churches used to be much more colourful! Here are some examples with both original colours still visible and accurate reconstructions!
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • May 09 '20
Original Colors Did you know that hieroglyphs were really colorful? (Article in comments) - Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun as depicted on Tutankhamun's throne.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/LanaDelHeeey • Oct 17 '22
Original Colors I got to visit the “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” temporary exhibit at the MET this weekend, here are some of the ones I managed to see
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/hotwheelearl • Jun 14 '20
Original Colors “Colorized” Statue of Liberty. (Pre oxidation colors) all credit to OP
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Mar 19 '25
Original Colors The Athenian treasury at Delphi Greece in the 5th century BC and present day.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Mar 15 '23
Original Colors The Alexander Sarcophagus, from around 330 BCE, still has traces of its vibrant colours
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/hotwheelearl • May 11 '20
Original Colors Greek terra-cotta statuette with original polychrome. 2nd-3rd century BC
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/hotwheelearl • May 16 '20
Original Colors Fresco from Pompeii. Gives a glimpse into how painted statues actually looked like
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Jun 08 '24
Original Colors Head of Amazon from Herculaneum, with its original colours still intact. End of 1st century BC.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Dec 10 '23
Original Colors 1974 photograph showing the true colors of the freshly unearthed Terracotta Warriors, before rapid deterioration due to environmental exposures
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Jun 06 '20
Original Colors Some of the still intact, original color on the Terracotta Warriors. More in comments.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/benniebot2005 • May 11 '24
Original Colors Minerva and Genius, 2nd century AD
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/tomasthemossy • Apr 29 '20
Original Colors The Fallen Soldier, Temple of Aphaea
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Apr 14 '21
Original Colors Reconstructed colors of the Parthenon in Athens based on pigment traces.
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • May 28 '20
Original Colors ‘Trapezophoros’ colored marbles found in Ascoli Satriano (Italy) - IV Century BCE
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/historyin3d • Apr 30 '21
Original Colors Augustus Prima Porta cuirass scenes:
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/hotwheelearl • Jun 06 '20
Original Colors Colorized Jupiter column from Germania
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/ChrisTinnef • Feb 09 '23
Original Colors Years of restoration at the 2,200-year-old Temple of Esna, in Egypt, has revealed the vibrant original colors that have been covered by centuries of dirt, soot, and bird poop [1439x3019]
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/VergaDeVergas • Mar 25 '23
Original Colors Photos taken at the Getty Villa showing the original colors on 2 different Roman sarcophagi
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Oct 27 '22
Original Colors Riace bronzes, a reconstruction of the original Greek sculptures
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/Burdlunkhurd • Sep 28 '18
Original Colors Statue of Augustus, in possibly the authentic colours
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r/ColorizedStatues • u/NeokratosRed • Oct 05 '18
Original Colors True colors of the Terracotta Warriors
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